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title: Therefore, I shall always take real pleasure in performing whatever… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, I shall always take real pleasure in performing whatever you can desire.” Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 26

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Therefore, I shall always take real pleasure in performing whatever you can desire.”

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** take, perform, desire · **To what, where:** real pleasure, whatever

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:14:26
# text = Therefore, I shall always take real pleasure in performing whatever you can desire.”
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	performing	perform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | I | real pleasure |  |  |  | always, therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 2 | **perform** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **desire** | can | you | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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